Gen. Hawley Talks Fourth Of July

I believe in the Fourth of July in the popular acceptation of that term. I believe in the Fourth of July all over, iroui the crown of my head to the 6olo of iny feet. As a boy and a man I fired iny guna and had a good time. I like to see the boys do the same now. You inay balong to a city council, and pass volumes of ordinances againHt guus and flrecrackers, you may send platoons of polioemen to arrest the boys, who viólate your ordinances, but you still have within you a secret Bympathy lor the young rascáis, and you like to be awakened on the morning of the Fourth by great bella and guns, even if you do swear a little about it. I believe in the Fourth of July ; I bolieve in " sentiment ;" I believe in the flag ; and I honor the ineroory of Daniel Webster when he pointed up through yonder rotunda at the " gor geous ensign of the republic," and trainpled with a magniticient scorn upon the poor, puny, contemptible spirit that dared to ask, " How much is all this worth ?" God bless Daniel Webster fpr this one paragraph ! I was grieved not angry - grieved in my rery soul, - when I heard men on this very floor, of wealth and culture, honor and abüity, sneering at what they called "sentiment," and laughing at " tears," and when I heard a Massachusetts man from the very bilis of Berkshire ridiculing the " eagle " and all that " cheap clap-trap." God grant that the day may be far distant when what you cali " Fourth of July talk " shall be out of fashion. Let it alwaya be in fashion. " Boya in Blue " talked it from the eradle ; and while, perhaps, infidela to free government aneered at thein, and ridiculed the " cross-roads talk about the Fourth of July " and the " eagle " those boys believed in it ; five hundred thousand graves bear witness to their belief. God help the poor, narrow soul whose eyes liever moisten at the sight of the flag!